Word: chorused
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lyrics on Blowout are often abstract, but the clear subjects are Afrocentrism and revolution. The melodious Dial 7 (Axiom of Creamy Spies) proclaims that blacks, like cream, will rise to the top. "It's Nation-time/ Nation-time/ ready to put in work," the chorus goes, calling for black solidarity. The mesmerizing Black Ego starts with the sound of a policeman reading Butterfly (real name: Ishmael Butler) his rights and the rapper sourly answering, "Oh, like I ever had rights." But unlike cop-hating gangsta rappers, Digable Planets has a constructive rebelliousness. "There are messages in our music for people...
Brought up in Jamestown, New York, by a fun-loving mother and a dismissive stepfather, Ball headed to Manhattan in 1926 to pursue show business. Although she was not considered beautiful, she worked as a fashion model and an awkward chorus girl before winning a contract with RKO studios in Los Angeles...
...Scott Fitzgerald once wrote that, "If the Princetonian had wanted to assert in sturdy chorus that his college...was deliberately and passionately America's norm in ideals of conduct and success, he would have gone to Yale...
Branagh deftly plays with the intersection of art, cinema and the theater. He opens the movie with our narrator, Derck Jacobi, playing the role of the chorus. He lights a match and by doing so invokes the predominant motif of fire, which flickers throughout the darkness of the film. In his shady-looking black trenchcoat, he them saunters across the set of the movie, surrounded by cameras, sets and lights--all the contraptions of film-making. We are clearly made accomplices to the fact that this is a constructed story. Rather than allow us to be lulled by the illusions...
Much of the country has been following the smith case. There's been the not unexpected chorus lamenting, yet again, the nation's loss of innocence...